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...Pre-Invasion Iraq.

The media knows how to do its job. Both sides of the media have been exaggerating (and out right fibbing) with the "terrorists" and "fascists" moniker.

This whole thing is about mainly one thing...and ironically the same thing it was about Iraq. Energy. And who is going to help Ukraine develop those gas wells and transport it (much like Iraq in where Halliburton and other US companies got most of the contracts to develop the oil resources....where the real money was).

Since Bush, the US has poured money into NGO's to install a US friendly (note...I didn't say western) government. And almost had it with Yushchenko (only thing Russia was capable of doing to keep Ukraine in their influence at that point was a failed assassination attempt). But then Tymoshenko and Yushchenko got into a power struggle allowing Yanukovych to take the lead, who was friendly to Russia.

....and that should have been it. Russia won that round due to the US backed group infighting and falling apart. But...apparently, someone convinced the Obama administration it was still possible to install a friendly Ukrainian government. However, this time around Putin doesn't have to rely on the FSB completely to do his work.

Its pretty obvious, much like the War in Georgia, Putin was expecting this. Took Crimea without firing a shot and is now assisting and fomenting enough unrest in the East (where all the gas deposits are). US media would have you believe the separatists were on their death bed....all the while I was reading on BBC news that the hardest part of the war was just beginning.

And US media has been calling Putin crazy....guess what, he just played the crazy card. If Poroshenko can't get the other leaders in Kiev onboard to accepting the peace agreement (because Putin is obviously nuts)....then Putin is going to continue this in to the winter when it really starts to hurt, time and patience is on his side. Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov would be proud.